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Planning A WordPress SaaS

January 8, 2023

Introduction There are many reasons to use WordPress as the foundation for your SaaS. Among these are: Architecture Options When building a SaaS on WordPress, one of the first things you’ll have to decide is your deployment architecture. WordPress offers three different architecture options for a SaaS: Architecture #1: WordPress Multisite WordPress has a feature called “Multisite”. It allows multiple…

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The Top 10 Most Commonly Used Linux Commands (AI Driven Results)

December 4, 2022

If you haven’t heard by now, chat.openai.com is the latest rage in artificial intelligence tech. So we decided to take it out for a spin. We asked it to write an article on the TOP 10 LINUX COMMANDS with the most often used parameters. This is what it came up with: ls – The ls command is used to list…

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Holiday 2022 Lifetime Offer – New Core+ Bundle

November 23, 2022

Every year we feel the pressure to offer some sort of BFCM deal.  But we’re reluctant to offer anything around the ALL ACCESS lifetime price since that’s already a great deal (even as the price has been increased over the years.) So, this year we’re going to make an offer that we haven’t done before – around the CORE plugin. …

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Sometimes, It’s Just Not A Great Fit

November 23, 2022

When customers find out about WPCloudDeploy, there’s a good chance that they’ve already looked at companies like Cloudways, Ploi, RunCloud, SpinupWP & Gridpane. Here’s a little secret – most folks are better off with those SaaS companies. That’s probably not what you expected to read, huh? Unless you have a very very specific need that can only be met by…

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Opinion: The WP Hosting Landscape Is A Little Incestuous

September 29, 2022

Once in a while I decide that it’s ok to release one of our ‘out of left field’ opinions out into the public arena for consumption and potential ridicule. Before you proceed I should warn you that these comments and observations have nothing to do with running WPCD or creating fast and awesome WP sites. It’s a complete random train…

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WPCloudDeploy Now Available In The AWS Marketplace

August 8, 2022

We’ve been working with Amazon Web Services over the last few weeks to get a pre-built WPCloudDeploy image into their Marketplace. After a lot of hard work we’re happy to report that it’s now available. Please use the button below to view the listing. As with our DigitalOcean marketplace listing, this adds another avenue where you can try out WPCloudDeploy…

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WPCloudPanel Redux – Dogfooding WPCD 5.0

August 2, 2022

Whenever we introduce a new major version we like to create a new demonstration service around it. This helps us to make sure that what we’re sending out the door has some basis in reality. Last year we introduced a demonstration service for WPCloudDeploy and our WooCommerce integrations called WPCloudPanel. We used it as a showcase on how WPCD could…

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Call For Testers: Front-end UI

June 1, 2022

Introduction The second most requested feature on our roadmap is support for a front-end UI. In WPCD V 4.16 and prior, admins and end-users both use the wp-admin area to manage their servers and sites. Role-based security combined with wpcd-specific WordPress capabilities is used to restrict end users to their own servers and sites. With this update we’re pleased to…

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Call For Testers: OpenLiteSpeed

June 1, 2022

Introduction The #1 requested feature on our roadmap is support for OpenLiteSpeed. We’re pleased to report that an early beta is now available. At this time we need experienced LiteSpeed users (or any user for that matter) to take it out for a spin. What Can You Expect? As an early beta, there isn’t feature parity with our NGINX feature…

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WPCloudDeploy Now Available In The DigitalOcean Marketplace

May 20, 2022

We’ve been working with DigitalOcean over the last few weeks to try to get a pre-built WPCloudDeploy image into their Marketplace. After a lot of hard work, it’s now available. Use the button below to view the listing. This adds another avenue where you can try out WPCloudDeploy for free. Instead of spending the time to install it on your…

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Thoughts On WPStaging PRO

April 5, 2022

Introduction We recently worked on a customer site that used WPStaging Pro. We had never worked with this tool before and found it interesting enough to write this article. If you’ve been reading our articles on a regular basis you already know that we only write articles on plugins that we’ve worked with ourselves – we certainly don’t write articles…

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One Year, 10+ Versions – 2021 Year In Review

December 31, 2021

This year was a busy one for us and we hit a lot of great milestones; but, like everyone else, we pivoted, twisted and turned as we all pushed through yet another difficult pandemic year. The Product As you might expect, the highlight for the year was the sheer rapid improvement in the product. We started off the year on…

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